In today’s release of, you can now easily install for use on the command line, without needing to download any separate packages. And whenever we update the version of Git included with GitHub for Mac, you’ll get the changes automatically – no work required on your part! After updating the app, you may notice some changes to the Preferences window. On the newly renamed “Advanced” tab, simply click “Install Command Line Tools”: You’ll be prompted for an administrator password so that Git can be installed into /usr/local/bin, and then you should very shortly see that it succeeded: If you’re using GitHub for Mac for the first time, and want to install Git, you can also set it up from the welcome screen: Once installed, you can open up Terminal.app and run git commands to your heart’s content. Command line aficionados, rejoice!

Download Latest Version git-2.6.2-intel-universal-mavericks.dmg (25.0 MB) Get. These were created on a 64-bit installation of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Mar 19, 2013 - 19, 2013 Beginner's Setup Guide for Git & Github on Mac OS X There is. If you are on OS X 10.7.x, download The 10.7 Command Line Tools.

Update: We’ve since removed the ability to install Git from GitHub for Mac, because OS X Mavericks and later includes a version of Git already.

Edit I was finally able to bring up the webpage at. At the top of the page, you'll see a big green notice box with this message (emphasis mine): Linux or Mac User? This page shows you how to set up and use a single default SSH identity on Windows for a Git repository using GitBash. In the next page, you set up SSH for a Mercurial repository on Windows with TortoiseHg.

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If you are working on Mac OSX or Linux, a single set of instructions shows you in these environments. Since you're using a Mac, you should see if the instructions at the given help link solve your problems. To be clear, here is the link again: •.

If it helps, here is a screenshot of the original notice box too: Old answer (still has useful info for running ssh-agent manually though) I can't read your link right now because my browser won't open the page, but from your description, it sounds like you're trying to get ssh-agent to start automatically whenever you open up a terminal. Do you have ssh-agent already installed and in your path?

You don't need to configure ssh-agent to run automatically, you can just invoke it manually. Try eval `ssh-agent -s` Then run ssh-add to enter your passphrase for your private key.

Be sure to shutoff ssh-agent when you're done using ssh-agent -k. Well thanks to both of you but i agree with @Cupcake as i have tried source tree and found it what if ok but Git has taught me to use the terminal more and be less afraid and more open to the terminal. With regards to my question though is what is gitbash i have set up identities several times but once the machine is closed then i restart it seems to keep telling me no permissions or identities so looking into ways gitbash is mentioned open in gitbash etc but what is it all i use is the terminal? – Aug 12 '13 at 8:03 •.